I want to start this blog post by expressing how much I love what I’m doing and most importantly the connections I’m making. I just met a guy who works in New York and essentially does the the same the thing as the partnership except they actually take equity. It’s crazy because I was just talking with a teacher about how moving to New York might affect the connections that I’m making. Every one I work with during my time at the partnership has made it very clear that they are willing to help me in and provide opportunities which is awesome. I will say I’ve gotten past the stage of where getting new assignments is exciting not to say I’m getting bored. As I was explaining my progress on putting together “why St. Louis” information(I mentioned before this info on all the resources STL has in preparation for Amsterdam) to Ginger we both kind of realized that something like that can be used by the entire St. Louis Start-up community along with an entrepreneurs road map similar to https://www.itenstl.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/03/ITEN_2016_Pathway.pdf except more comprehensive, offer industry specific resources and provide information for companies at different stages of development. I’ve also been continuing my work with anchor tenants and that’s almost finished. This week I’ve actually not been at the partnership as the I&E team is in San Francisco at a conference. I’m spending the next to day at Arch Grants, one of the largest SBDC(Small Business Development Corporation) in St. Louis. Here I have been working on updating their client database as well as their donor database. TL;DR: It’s been real.